Alota

Alota is a village in the department of Potosí in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Alota 's central place in the canton Alota and second largest town in the Province Enrique Baldivieso. The village lies at an altitude of 3816 m on the southern edge of the strato-volcano Cerro San Agustín, which reaches a height of 5,357 m. In the north-east flows past the town of Río Alota, eight kilometers east of the village lies the Laguna Tarija.

Geography

Alota located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera de Lípez in the southeast.

The climate in this region in the southwest of the country is arid, only January to March fall precipitation 10 to 30 mm in the month (see climate chart Avaroa ), in the remaining nine months falls sporadic precipitation. The mean annual temperature of the region is about 7 ° C, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 3 ° C in July and 10 ° C in January.

Traffic network

Alota lies at a distance of 343 kilometers of road southwest of Potosí, the capital of the department of the same name.

From Potosí out performs the highway Ruta 5 198 km in a southwesterly direction to Uyuni, which is located at the Salar de Uyuni. South of Uyuni leads a dirt road continues in a southwesterly direction through San Cristóbal and reached after 145 kilometers Alota. Two kilometers past Alota one track branches off to the north, reaching the provincial capital San Agustín after 35 kilometers.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades by about a third:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population in the province Baldivieso 95.5 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.